The potential of artemisinins as anti-obesity agents via modulating the immune system

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Artemisinin and its derivatives are the most effective antimalarial drugs. Besides anti-malarial activity, artemisinin and its derivatives have displayed wide-spectrum bioactivities such as anti-parasite, anti-tumor, and anti-obesity effects. Obesity is an epidemic worldwide which is a big threat to human health, but there are only a few approved anti-obesity drugs in the world. Also, these drugs are efficient to limited patients partly because their safety and efficacy are questioned. Anti-inflammatory therapies may be valuable in obesity treatment since growing evidence shows chronic metabolic inflammation is implicated in metabolic disease pathogenesis. As artemisinin and its derivatives display effective anti-inflammatory and immunoregulatory properties with less toxicity, it provides an insight for novel drug development in obesity therapeutic strategies via immune-regulatory mechanisms. In this review, the potential of artemisinin and its derivatives to treat various metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes is discussed.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:216

Enthalten in:

Pharmacology & therapeutics - 216(2020) vom: 01. Dez., Seite 107696

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shen, Shengnan [VerfasserIn]
Liao, Qiwen [VerfasserIn]
Lyu, Ming [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Yin-Kwan [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xing [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Nan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jigang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Anti-Obesity Agents
Anti-inflammatory
Artemisinin
Artemisinins
Diabetes
Drug development
Inflammation Mediators
Journal Article
Multi-target
Obesity
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

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Date Completed 31.08.2021

Date Revised 31.08.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.pharmthera.2020.107696

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NLM315924918